RANDOM SHOTS

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

RANDOM SHOTS

"In the war bad language was seldom heard by a chaplain." The chaplains must have been adept at keeping to windward of the troops. -Mr. Hughes rocked the Australian political boat until it capsized. But that's not so difficult when there are three oarsmen. The "fishy" flavour of New Zealand pork is said to be due to the feeding of pigs on whale oil. This is something new in fish stories. "After a long preliminary of discus- ( sion the House of Representatives seems likely to become busy on legislation this week." Hope springs eternal in the Press ga,llery. , J Mr. Coates said that "the Reform party had a history, and one that would be long remembered." This seems to show that Mr. Coates has at last realised the truth. Do the protests heard occasionally against the killing of whales in the Antartie arise from solicitude for the whales, or from the fact that pots of money are being made—by other people? "Future Prime Ministers of New Zea-

land may live in a flat." Let's the kitchenette won't be so small that the Prime Minister will not be able to invite his friends in to help him dry 'the dishes. A Kefo""i M.P.: "Once the people realised what the Government promises were and how they were being carried ont, there would be no doubt about the result." Perhaps so; but this was not quite what the Reformer intended to convey.* Perhaps Russia and China imagined they would break into the news by staging a war, but it appears that they forgot to provide ringside seats for the war correspondents. That kind of carelessness' simply kills public interest. The Wellington captain, before last Saturday's Rugby match at Eden Park, won the toss and chose to play with the wind. He then found the wind against him. This shows that there is something a Wellingtonian does not know about wind. Prominent members of tho medical profession delivered lecturettes on the Aorangi between Honolulu and Suva. One spoke of the health of white women in the tropics, one of milk, and another of the choosing of friends. Curious that no doctor chose "Seasickness." "The great nped of the times was the development of a harmony within the child's soul." Such harmony is, of course, difficult to secure, but it can be observed on Friday nights, when the has had his evening meal, and knows there is no more school for hijnj till Monday. "That' the emergence of woman from the home. is feature in, modern life," was. the assertion successfully advanced by a New Zealand-debat-ing team. I suppose the strongest argument was .that the emergence of woman from the home on "shopping days" leads to a continual depression of the cashregister keys, , ' "The bulk of the ex-servree men for Palestine are under 25 years of age. The great majority have served ill the Brigade of Guards." The war ended nearly eleven years ago, so we must conclude that these men either saw service in peace-time or that every one of them, at the age of 13 or 14, looked so "grown-up" that he was able to deceive •the enlistment authorities. It is learned that all New York society is anxious to meet a girl (Mr. Ramsay Ma'cDonald's daughter) who does not smoke or dance, who is versed in the domestic virtues, and While looking after the Prime Minister's important, guests, finds time to play an important part in London's municipal and social work. All this about Miss MacDonald may be true, but if it is, it is surprising that New York society wants to meet - her. How did New Yorksociety become interested in a girl who has never married a title, danced with the Prince, flown the Atlantic, swum the Channel or married a movie actor V Why, this girl has not even been divorced!